It is quite difficult to find something useful on the web about the artist (s)"Morale". Even hours of effort of several search engines can hardly bring useful results. It is not certain whether the names Giampaolo Morale and Wanda Stramaglia Cerreto are behind the pseudonym.

It seems certain (1) that the artist(s) produced for the Italian studio Leonetti. Furthermore, it is likely - if you compare the slightly different drawing styles of the individual morale productions - that under the signet Morale various artists from Dino Leonetti's studio were involved in the individual comic projects.

The drawing style under the "label" Morale is classical, clearly structured and without a wild picture structure. This style has almost no personal, distinctive note; probably due to the dictates of the Italian Fumetti booklets and the style of the house Leonetti.

In some comic projects, the experienced narrator, author and fellow artist Tulli was on hand. The Leonetti studio itself was often responsible for the lyrics.

The comic strip stories themselves sometimes play in earlier epochs, for example in the album La Divine. It is about an opera singer who tries to survive in Europe during the First World War as a "Mata Hari double agent". The volume is also published in German under the name "Die Göttliche" (The Divine). The English translation was published by Cha Cha Comics.

The comic strip story Ambre L´Impétueuse takes place again in France in 1628.

The sex portrayals in the moral comics are very explicit and form the main part of the content of the respective story. They cover the whole range of interpersonal togetherness and go all the way to "hard" bondage and torture scenes.

What is striking about morale productions is that homo- and bisexual scenes have also been incorporated into the stories.

But what repels is the rather brutal treatment of women. Isolated scenes in which women are beaten have something cold, pejorative and brutal about them.

There is a subtle difference between naked and bound women being punished with a whip within a fetish scene or being punished by a man with a fist in the face. Erotic is not the latter! Here you can see the "dark paths" of the fumetti neri.

It is also striking that individual images or characters from other productions have been copied and adapted for various scenes of some moral productions. However, this was almost common practice in many Fumetti series - including Leonetti.

An example at the end of this page shows a confrontation between Morale vs. (2)